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“Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up?” brings us a Kaznian field trip for Lena and Kara that reveals lots but stops short of the friends knowing everything. It also reveals the growing friendship between Alex and Kelly, and it reveals the depths of Ben Lockwood’s lack of character. Oh, and President Baker? Yeah, he’s in on Lex’s plan too – I know, it’s a shocker!

Kara and Lena Go Sightseeing

Following up on the reveal that Lex has bought a missile base in Kaznia, Kara and Lena head to Lena’s private jet to go there. Kara’s leaning toward flying herself (ba-dum-ching) but Lena won’t hear of it. They fly to Kaznia in the non-pilot, totally technology-driven plane and, of course, it’s brought down by mysterious purple lightning. Kara saves the plane while Lena is trying to fix everything in the cockpit and they end up making a successful landing. They enter the base to find that Lex has been experimenting on the alien prisoners from the DEO’s desert facility, including “Copy,” the villain who could create copies of himself that got increasingly dumber as they went along. Then they hear a noise from behind a closed door and Eve is there so happy to see Lena and Kara together. They begin to piece together the plan that Kaznia will send an invasion force to the United States, which seems ludicrous, until they realize that Lex has Red Daughter. Lena describes “it” as a product of the Harun-El and Kara insists that “she” is a product of Supergirl and therefore must have some good in her. Meanwhile a cuffed Eve keeps “helping” and glitching at the same time. Hmmmmmmm. Then everything goes to hell and the base announces that it will self-destruct in ten minutes. Kara and Lena get separated and Kara wanders into Red Daughter’s room and is horrified to find the walls of photos recording her life with Lena, Alex, and everyone else important to her. She also finds her diary there. Yikes. She keeps Lena away from it and goes back to laser eye the whole display. Eve reveals that the glitching is because she is a copy and the copies get busy taking on Supergirl who does an amazing job dispatching them with relative ease. Lena gets separated from Kara and finds Eve on the plane. They fight and Eve ends up stabbing Lena in the shoulder but Lena gets the best of her – and she’s a copy. Lena goes back for Kara as the base explodes and feels incredible guilt that Kara could have been killed in the explosion. Kara takes off her glasses and goes into the heroine pose and is about to reveal it all *except* that Lena is going on and on about all of the people in her life that she lets get close to her and how they lie and eventually betray and lie and try to hurt her and lie. Kara puts her glasses back on and tells Lena she will always be there for her. Yeeeeesh. Back in National City, Kara catches James up on the whole thing and how, one day, she will reveal her Supergirl-ness to Lena because it’s the right thing to do. She then has a meeting in the White House. More on that later… Oh, and there’s this weird little segment with James being trained IN THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE!!!!!!! by Nia and Brainy where she wants to hit him with Lois’ sonic hammer back from the Crossover event.

Alex and Kelly Go to Portsmouth

Jogging in the park with Kelly Olsen, Alex gets a phone call that the time has come for her to make a final decision about a baby that is available to adopt. She is taken aback by the news and shares with Kelly that she is alarmed by it all. Later, in her apartment, Alex tells Kelly about the breakup with Maggie over the issue of children but she’s not sure that she’s ready for all of this, and dang it! why can’t she get Kara on the phone to talk about it. Kelly asks her to role play with what Kara would tell her and Alex says out loud from Kara’s POV that Alex will be great at this. The two decide to go to Portsmouth. As they are waiting in the hotel Alex is again anxious because she doesn’t feel like she can be half of the mother that Eliza was. Kelly assures her that she is simply too nurturing not to be a successful mother. Kelly has seen it in how she has treated Kara, James, and herself already in her short time in National City. Later, Alex gets the final phone call that the 16-year-old mother has decided against adoption and is going to keep the baby. Alex is heartbroken and we later see her and Kelly once again back in her apartment lamenting her life choices with Maggie and where she is not. Once again, Kelly reassures her that she’s going to be great as a mother and in everything that she does. We also learn more about Kelly’s past in that she was once engaged and that they weren’t open about it in their military setting. Her finacee died and she found the note that she left to Kelly. She tells Alex that deep wounds like what she’s just experienced lead to faded scars over time.

Ben and George Go Their Separate Ways

We catch up with Ben and George Lockwood at Lydia’s funeral. George is giving the eulogy and toward the end Ben gets up and walks out. Just like that. He goes back to the DEO to berate the agents about not finding the alien who murdered his wife. One of his minions then comes to tell Ben that Lena Luthor has a lab in the DEO. Brainy overhears this and vows to take Ben on. He tries to keep the two out of the lab but Ben uses the minion’s gun to blow the glass door away. In all of this we learn that Haley is gone to DC to try to get Lockwood reigned in. Ben and the minion find the experimental Harun-El. Brainy tries to dissuade Ben from messing with it because of the unknown consequences. George also shows up – to the DEO – (Wait, what?!) and wants to know why his Dad left him IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUNERAL! Ben summarily dismisses him. The murdering alien has been found so a strike team is assembled. The DEO apprehends her (she’s in the same exact outfit as last week) and Ben orders all of the other assembled aliens into custody. Brainy tries to object but is summarily dismissed. Out in the street Ben is confronted by Dreamer and Super-Guardian (Wait, what?!). Ben takes the Harun-El and gets all powery too. They brawl and who shows up but Martian Manhunter! (Wait, WHAT?! Dude, where have you been?) Brainy appeals to the other agents that all of this is wrong and they need to follow their hearts. Dreamer smiles at him…dreamily. Super-Guardian tells MM to throw Ben into a gasoline tanker. “Trust me,” he says. (WAIT,,,,WHAT THE WHAT?!?!) The aliens are set free – not sure about Lydia’s murderer or not – and Ben comes out of the flames unharmed. Ben goes back to find George at the funeral home where George tells him to buzz off, and oh, he hates him.

Kara and President Baker Go To A Very Bad Place

Kara goes to the White House to inform POTUS that Lex is planning an invasion attack and that he has tanks (thank you, Eve Copy) and that he has a Supergirl clone and that he’s the greatest criminal mind of our age! Oh, and he’s got a new rock in the Office, which happens to be Kryptonite. When she draws a breath President Baker asks her for proof of any of this. She hands over a manila envelope which he quickly places in the Resolute Desk. He asks if she’s shared with anyone else. She says no and then he kidnaps her. Bad POTUS!

Closing Thoughts

This episode was really…disjointed. The call out of nowhere to Alex felt shoehorned in so we wouldn’t forget that she really wants to be a mother. Obviously it was used to continue the ramp up to the Kalex/Ally(?) ship but it felt like a clunky way to achieve that. The dynamic between Kara and Lena was the best part of this episode. Kara “acting” like a helpless cohort to Lena is a great mechanism for the show to explore not telling Lena about her being Supergirl. When Kara feels guilty that Lena takes it on that she could have gotten Kara killed it is a great moment that Kara makes the decision to tell Lena everything – only to pull back when she thinks it will do more damage than good. Hats off once again to Melissa Benoist at the room where Red Daughter set up her shrine to Kara. The amount of disturbance Melissa showed was incredible as she had to deal with the complexity of learning the truth of it all and process it by herself. When Supergirl and Red Daughter face off it’s (hopefully) going to be very powerful and will, no doubt, blow up the special effects budget. Speaking of which, the plane landing sequence was really good! Other than that, I’m way over the edge with Ben. I’m just glad Brainy was able to stand up to him and get his fellow DEO agents on his side. That was refreshing. We have a lot to wrap up in the last two episodes of Season 4. I’m hopeful for what we might get!

Cougar’s Comic Corner

“Superman/Batman Vol.1: New Edition”(May 6, 2014) Written by Jeph Loeb and Artists Ed McGuiness and Dexter Vines
The iconic super-heroes unite when longtime Superman enemy Lex Luthor, now president of the United States, accuses Superman of a crime against humanity, and assembles a top-secret team of powerhouse heroes to bring Superman in — dead or alive. And in the second story arc, prepare for the arrival of Supergirl! Batman has discovered something strange on the bottom of Gotham Bay, which leads him to a mysterious and powerful teenaged girl bent on destroying Gotham City! What’s her connection to Superman? Why does Wonder Woman want to hide her from the outside world? And will Darkseid succeed in recruiting her into doing his bidding?

Next time on “Supergirl”!

Season 4, Episode 21, “Red Dawn”
SUPERGIRL BATTLES RED DAUGHTER — Kara comes face to face with Red Daughter and the two engage in an epic battle. Determined to find a way to extract the Harun-El, Lena turns to an unlikely source for help – Lillian Luthor (guest star Brenda Strong). Meanwhile, Alex realizes she’s missing parts of her memory, and Brainy, Nia and J’onn set out to track down aliens who have been abducted by Lex. Alexis Ostrander directed the episode with story by Lindsay Sturman and teleplay by Gabriel Llanas & Eric Carrasco.

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I figured I would drop in and follow up on my two hypotheses (I owe it to Green Butterfly) and explain how I came to those probably erroneous extrapolations as well as translate some German for you.

First the 2 hypotheses…

Speedster:

In episode the writers fact dump that Lex has obtained from President Half-Baked (Not his aide, who plainly is the fall-girl.), the transfer of DEO illegally Guantanamoed prisoners from Alura’s own plainly illegal (Nurnberg rules apply.) fascist Kryptonian people zoo of Fort Rozz.

Speedster…

Purely human, so far in the DC mythos, the Flashes are velocity gated as Yellow (standard), Red (long wave emitted light representing negative velocity), and blue (Hyper-speed/going towards time travel.). In the Arrow-verse, Barry the Flash, follows this Geoff Johns’ poorly conceived rule which in real world physics is based on the wave form crest to trough of photons across the color spectrum we detect. Photons, which in reality, move at roughly the same velocity no matter the color, but which have field effects across the interval directly proportional to the excitation state (amount of force) they exhibit when they reach the end of their interval/distance and we detect them emit color based on how forceful they are at the force transfer into the particle with into which they merge. Photons are force carriers. Their “speed” has nothing to do with their “color” or wave crest-trough field form during transit. The amount of force they carry does.

Anyway, in the DC myth, the way to tap into the “speed force” (electromagnetic force) is either to be accidentally chemically poisoned by a chemical cocktail and be hit by natural lightning, be poisoned, by any excuse, by a chemical cocktail and struck by magic summoned lightning, or deliberately poison yourself and be struck by manmade lightning. Explains all of the Flashes, including those psychos who invent Velocity 1-9 formulii, who run out Ben franklin fashion, into a thunderstorm and become speedsters ARTIFICIALLY.

This might explain Lex. However; if he has the Flying Brick package, superspeed is part of it. Supergoyl does not exhibit lightning when she moves at superspeed. Why would Lex need to show lightning?

So… might be another person with the purple lightning? Who? How about Mercy? Or maybe no-one since how did a speedster get up to an airplane without a way to run up there? Speedsters don’t fly.

“The Zamarons were originally the female members of the race called Maltusians. When the renegade scientist Krona performed a forbidden experiment that had terrible effects on the whole universe, the male Oans argued about how to deal with the situation. One group of Oans decided to dedicate their eternal existences to contain evil; they became the Guardians of the Universe. The females, however, saw no need to involve themselves and, since the Oans were by then immortal and had no more need to reproduce, left their mates and became known as the Zamarons.”

“In brightest day and darkest night,
Count on Oans to never get it right.”

When the males handed down the word,
the females objected, so absurd-”

“that decision which was a turd.
of big blue-headed male sexless nerds.

The Oan females in due course of time,
Went love-happy and turned to crime.

So crazy Hal, with his green ring of male will,
jilts his lover, Carol Ferris, treats her ill.

It was not Green Lantern’s finest hour…
So heartbroken Carol gets a violet ring’s power.

She becomes the Zamaron’s mighty human queen,
And turns into a Star Sapphire extremely mean.

She now works to kill her former lover.
Recite this dumb poem like Danny Glover!”

Uhm, yeah..

Anyway, presumably one of the DEO transfers was a Zamaron, complete with ring? Or maybe a violet ring sought out a love puppy with evil tendencies? Either way, Andrea Brooks (Eve Tessmacher) goes on and on about love in the episo0de and I wondered, what would a brain-damaged six year old chimpanzee (Me) do if I was writing that garbage and I wanted it to actually be useful and important as a story element. Then I remembered the lightning and the plane forced down, and it occurred to me, as a brain damaged chimpanzee, that if I was not Derek Simon and actually had an iota of imagination and I wanted to introduce a Lantern, but was not allowed as Green Lantern, why not do what was tried to siphon out Batman for Arrow. Use distaff Batman; Batwoman. For Supergirl? Not a Green Lantern, but a near kin, a Star Sapphire; and not Carol Ferris, but a Superman villainess, Eve Tessmacher in love with Lex.

I could play with that one. Imagine the fun I could have with the Snowbird, Star Sapphire Eve, Lex love triangle. Pure CW trash super soap opera romance drivel and perfectly in tune with these brain damaged Supergoyl writers’ world view of how human beings function.

(Welt·an·schau·ung; a world view).

Which reminds me… German translations from my review.

(dop-pel-gan-gers; duplicate men or humanalogs)

(das Nihilistisch-Laufmist ist Gänseepping: the nihilistic running mist is goose-seeping/goose-seepage) I could have used Gän-se-haut (goose-stepping) but that is a little too on the nose, even for these bleep writers and I would have been wide open for a lawsuit.

(Gül-le-kuch-en: manure cake is the best translation.) We have a better English expression; an ____ (offal) sandwich.

Sorry for the roughage, GB, but it was a real Güllekuchen for me to watch and I will call it like I see it.

““Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up?” brings us a Kaznian field trip for Lena and Kara that reveals lots” – except the one reveal we all want. Ha.

“where she wants to hit him with Lois’ sonic hammer back from the Crossover event.” – at least Nia knows what the audience wants with this plot. Ha!

“Super-Guardian” – boo!!!

“The call out of nowhere to Alex felt shoehorned in so we wouldn’t forget that she really wants to be a mother.” – ok I’ve been thinking about this and while the timing does feel forced, it also feels real to what would happen with an adoption call – you never know when it’s going to come so Alex getting it now does make sense and it is continuity to show that plot still exists; plus as you said it gives time for Alex/Kelly which is probably more screen time than Alex or she would have gotten this week just dealing with Ben so overall I’m ok with this popping up this week. Their ship name can’t be Kalex as someone already has that name on the show. Ally sounds like an individual…you’re starting well John but I don’t think you’ve found the one yet.

I was definitely stressing when Lena and Kara had the whole “What is it?” face off because Kara can’t lie well and with her stuttering I thought Lena was going to bypass her back to the room and then I wondered would she think who she was with is Red Daughter and be mad at Lex then piece it that that means Kara is Supergirl and be mad at Kara and then you always worry if the writers are going to mess it up by making her evil because of that so I’m ok with how it turned out but I am ready for her to tell Lena (and Alex) to see the reaction – which better not be going evil! Melissa and Katie are like Melissa and Chyler and that they always do well together!

I will always be upset they ended Felicity’s chair plot as quick as they did; true the good part is they didn’t fix her paralyzation as if it never happened, it happened and still is in play to this day but they did write it off quick with the chip and that was sad to see. Again I get it for filming it’s easier and maybe Emily doesn’t want to do the chair for 14 hours a day but overall I do wish that had gone almost all of S4 if not all of until she got the chip next season.

Nora West-Allen is making “Flash” pretty good I have to say; her stuff got this non watcher to watch and she is the spin off I’m most excited for currently. “Supergirl” has at least 2 more season before we need to think about one and 2 after that before it’s in play so there’s no need to rush it but I have thought if they do one I’m up for Alex leading this young justice League or the Danvers cousins (kids of our leads) being in the league mix. Personally I’m for more Alex and Kara as I love Melissa and Chyler but again we have 4 years before spinoffs need talking with us so no rush, but yes I have to give “Flash” points this season, it also helps they have no Ben because dude is a downer with the COL stuff.

I wonder if “Batwoman” will get “Arrow”‘s slot? I feel they need to edit that description because we have a lesbian superhero in the lead role – her name is Alex. If you want to go to the start and just say queer woman that’s Sara Lance; Kate is the first lesbian TITLE character for a superhero show. “Oh you should meet my sister!” – I got to say if Alex is single at a point I’m so for Kara playing wing woman trying to set these two up even if it won’t happen because different shows. I enjoyed Ruby as Kate and Batwoman in the crossover so I’m excited to see her show and a real trailer for it coming because the teaser was just that as it showed nothing but tease clips. Ha.

The only show missing coverage on GSM right now in some way is “Black Lightening”; Tomorrow’s Legends as John said isn’t GSM but Martin does cover it so it’s by extension.

“I could have watched that over and over and over again! Not nice but it’s true!” – me in regards to James getting hit with the truck because that plot is bull; take the powers out of James!!!

“Green Butterfly wanted some naked Ben Lockwood!” – ha, to be fair Justina I’ve seen shirtless Sam on another show, it’s not a bad view. Also I can do you one better, nothing will be as dumb as “Fear The Walking Dead” acting like gas goes bad if it touches dirt so you can’t use it; seriously that S4 final was ridiculous (I don’t mean that in a good way) but then again S4 on the whole was crap so I don’t know why I’m that shocked…anyways it could have been worse. Ben could have spilled some on his shirt or sweated it out to protect the shirt; ugh why do I feel if that was James that shirt would have been off? James is not just sex show, he has a mind too! Granted you don’t let him use it because you refuse to make him the newshead he is but he has it; I will never not be upset about his powers plot.

We may not have had much of Kelly so far Justina but in what time we have had her she’s been 10x better than James has in the last 2 years (not counting this season)!

I vote we call James Captain No because no one wants this! 😡

Justina re: Kalex “Does he just go and pout in the corner?” – ha!

How interesting if a twist would it be if instead of Kara outting herself Red Daughter puts her by actually putting glasses on to show Lena who she is? That would be a great moment to address glasses in a fun way given how much crap we give them as a disguise! I know it won’t happen but it could be interesting.

Here’s another Darryl, Kara clearly hits a mountain saving the plane but yet there’s no dirt on her pants when we see her back in the chair. Also I feel it’ll get worse for Alex regarding the adoption because you just know someone is going to call her out for her sexuality so they can discuss that discrimination in the process; I mean I can’t guarantee that but it wouldn’t surprise me if they go there especially given it’s an important topic to discuss. Just because someone is X, Y, or Z doesn’t mean they won’t be a good parent for X, Y, and Z; it’s one thing to dock her points for being single as it’s a hard job being a parent alone or for having a dangerous job but for any other reason is unfair and it’s just the type of plot the writers would love to tackle so people will talk about it and hopefully end discrimination like that. Alex will probably tell Kara about the adoption but it’ll be off screen. NO EVIL LENA!

It’s not a speedster Monty, the worlds haven’t merged yet – check back after the next crossover. Ha.

“It’s not a speedster Monty, the worlds haven’t merged yet – check back after the next crossover. Ha.”

I agree with you. That idea was running on empty when I tried to imagine a speedster running on air plane contrails. It doesn’t work.

Alex’s sexuality is not an issue, but the way the writers handle the issue of adoption sure is for me. Only immature children throwing an ideological tantrum, write the way they treat this delicate and highly volatile subject in this episode. Adult writers would know better than to try to blame “religion” for a missed shot. Anything can happen and it is usually not communicated to the prospective adopters, why the mother decides to keep her child. It is kinder to leave the adopter in the dark so as to not allow prejudice or blame or follow up legal actions. For Mothers, even atheist mothers, can and should be allowed to change their minds, and there is a valid real reason for never giving the adopter the why of it. REAL WORLD Monty speaking about a real world event.

Captain No? I’m down with it. We now have Captain Useless, Captain No, Braindead, Half-Baked, Benny the Moose, his son, the Bunny… Is there anyone we missed?

If Lena had boomeranged Eve with that shoe I would have to start calling her, our tame mad scientist, Captain Sol Sana (Australian high fashion shoe maker.)

Sadly Monty there are adoption agencies here that will use people’s orientation, among other things, as a strike against potential parents because of their personal feelings not considering who’s best for the child so that’s why I say it wouldn’t surprise me if that comes up at one point in the arc as it’s a topic that needs to be addressed; I’d also be fine with them not tackling it as yay for no discrimination but I just feel it’s one of those plot points that’s too intriguing for them to not write some you know?

Others do bring in priest all the time to try and sway people’s opinions so I didn’t find the move that out of left field, was it rushed arguably sure – you could have had the same end result with the mom just deciding to keep the kid because she got this bond seeing the kid after it was born but it’s not out of reality the parents would call a priest to try and sway her. You can certainly question the execution but the cause is real; it’s like the Sanvers break up was totally rushed because they wrote themselves into a corner with that plot by having Maggie say yes the season before but the cause of the split is something that does divide couples so it’s this weird 50/50 mix. I’ll give you Alex realistically wouldn’t have gotten more than “the mother is keeping the baby” as a response but of course being TV they want the audience to hear the reason so they don’t have to keep hearing cries of “Well what happened?!”.

They do love talking Superman with James so I’m also open to Super Nope/Super No for his nickname because just no to James with powers!

Captain Sol Sana – nice choice; I’ll admit hearing she’s Australian makes me think of Captain Boomerang (Flash villain; hey speedster talk we’ve come full circle ha :)) since you used that action in the statement and I think he’s Australian too so it makes me enjoy it even more.

“Sadly Monty there are adoption agencies here that will use people’s orientation, among other things, as a strike against potential parents because of their personal feelings not considering who’s best for the child so that’s why I say it wouldn’t surprise me if that comes up at one point in the arc as it’s a topic that needs to be addressed; I’d also be fine with them not tackling it as yay for no discrimination but I just feel it’s one of those plot points that’s too intriguing for them to not write some you know?”

Well argued and I am kind of changing my mind…

“Others do bring in priest all the time to try and sway people’s opinions so I didn’t find the move that out of left field, was it rushed arguably sure – you could have had the same end result with the mom just deciding to keep the kid because she got this bond seeing the kid after it was born but it’s not out of reality the parents would call a priest to try and sway her. You can certainly question the execution but the cause is real; it’s like the Sanvers break up was totally rushed because they wrote themselves into a corner with that plot by having Maggie say yes the season before but the cause of the split is something that does divide couples so it’s this weird 50/50 mix. I’ll give you Alex realistically wouldn’t have gotten more than “the mother is keeping the baby” as a response but of course being TV they want the audience to hear the reason so they don’t have to keep hearing cries of “Well what happened?!”.”

Uhm. Okay, I see it. But can we have a better written execution, or maybe an episode dedicated to flesh the situation out with audience omniscience and actually refrain as is correct practice (at least in my patch of planet) the from the real world reason given to Alex to drive the irony home for us? Leaving Alex in the dark about why would be the drama moment.

“They do love talking Superman with James so I’m also open to Super Nope/Super No for his nickname because just no to James with powers! ”

Super Nope is better than Captain No. It has a close approximate to what I think about the writing.

“They call James “Super Nope” now
Because the “super dope” writing is just “wow”
awful for the character and the plot.”

Mehcad Brooks, being mistreated, ought
To check his contract prior
To hold the writers to the fire.

Before each episode.
Before his Q score sinks,
And James Olsen totally stinks.”

“Captain Sol Sana – nice choice; I’ll admit hearing she’s Australian makes me think of Captain Boomerang (Flash villain; hey speedster talk we’ve come full circle ha :)) since you used that action in the statement and I think he’s Australian too so it makes me enjoy it even more.”

I was thinking Shazam (the old Captain Marvel) actually and the near rhyme for our (tame) mad scientist hit me. The shoe maker was just a bonus. That and the “bright cruelty” pun. (Sol=sun Sana= Intención rencorosa y cruel con que se intenta causar daño. Furor, ira, enojo: or in English, the spiteful and cruel intent with which it is expected to cause return harm. Fury, anger, often justified anger.) In other words, Lena after she has been hurt.

“But can we have a better written execution” – it’s a fair ask, but I think it would need to be in an episode where it’s more half the episode based then just the 15 minute transition plot of the week. Sometimes they nail execution but others we get rushed reasons. At least we get reasons though which is better than other shows which just have plots disappear if you will with little to no resolution.

“Leaving Alex in the dark about why would be the drama moment.” – fair!

Super Nope it is then!

I get Mehcad probably enjoys Super Nope because it’s fun playing the action hero especially when everyone else is getting to do it arguably, but the problem is viewer wise it does not work for James. The news is his super power not actual powers! Again why they refuse to let him just be the stand in Cat/career progressed James he could be I will never know.

I feel at this point James is probably unredeemable to a lot of fans, well there’s probably still time if they make him the news guy only in S5 but if they keep throwing every plot at him except that one then I feel James is going to just become completely irrelevant to a lot of fans. Sure he’ll probably get talked about but it in a way that’s full of excitement like other characters and yeah we’ll still realize he’s there but at the same time take bets on how his screen time could be used for more interesting plots. Again why do you chose to ignore news James show?! There’s a reason season one James is everyone’s favorite version because he didn’t feel forced, he helped Kara without trying to one up Kara; he was in character without having to have other characters spew various lines about how this was him. At this point if they can’t do better with him then I wish they’d just send him to Metropolis to fill in for Clark or let him go be on Legends as at least there his random insertion into plots won’t feel so forced just to keep him relevant, he can buddy up to and sleep with whoever he wants without it feeling like a complete rewrite of his previous season comments/arcs; again I don’t want someone to lose their job but they seriously need to do better with him.

“I get Mehcad probably enjoys Super Nope because it’s fun playing the action hero especially when everyone else is getting to do it arguably, but the problem is viewer wise it does not work for James. The news is his super power not actual powers! Again why they refuse to let him just be the stand in Cat/career progressed James he could be I will never know.”

Fairness. I think with this set of showrunners, it is a case of ticket punching the diversity card. You have Chyler playing Batwoman, Melissa playing Kryptonian Princess Kara, David Harewood as Big Daddy Martian, Katie McGrath as crazed tame Mad Scientist Luthor, Jesse Rath as Comedy Relief Mentally Challenged Lad, why should Mehcad be left out? So he starts as Guardian, which does not work and becomes Super Nope, which still does not work?

“I feel at this point James is probably unredeemable to a lot of fans, well there’s probably still time if they make him the news guy only in S5 but if they keep throwing every plot at him except that one then I feel James is going to just become completely irrelevant to a lot of fans. Sure he’ll probably get talked about but [not] in a way that’s full of excitement like other characters and yeah we’ll still realize he’s there but at the same time take bets on how his screen time could be used for more interesting plots. Again why do you chose to ignore [the] news [reporter] James [here] show?! There’s a reason season one James is everyone’s favorite version because he didn’t feel forced, he helped Kara without trying to one up Kara; he was in character without having to have other characters spew various lines about how this was him. At this point if they can’t do better with him then I wish they’d just send him to Metropolis to fill in for Clark or let him go be on Legends as at least there his random insertion into plots won’t feel so forced just to keep him relevant, he can buddy up to and sleep with whoever he wants without it feeling like a complete rewrite of his previous season comments/arcs; again I don’t want someone to lose their job but they seriously need to do better with him.”

Why should a writer or two not be fired for not doing his or her job? Maybe that is what it takes. I’ve got two very specific candidates in mind. Three gone, if we include a certain inept producer…